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Kissing It Better Really Works!

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Pucker up… kissing it better really works: Saliva found to have properties that help speed up the healing process

Is there anything worse than seeing your child fall down and hurt themselves? It just cuts through your heart to see them hurting, even if it’s just a little scrape. Just about any parent’s first reaction is to run over and kiss it better. That always seems to help stop the crying, acting as a loving kind of placebo effect. Well – good news, it is not just a gesture of love to make your little one feel better.

Research is showing that saliva has properties that can actually advance recovery, which is why cuts in the mouth heal quicker. Makes perfect sense right? Professor Vicente Torres, of the University of Chile, states “These findings open new alternatives to better understand the biology underlying the differences between oral and skin wound healing. We believe the study could help the design of better approaches to improve wound healing in tissues other than the mouth.”

Professor Torres uses all sorts of cool scientific medical jargon such as histatin -1 and a process known medically as angiogenesis. What does that mean you ask? I don’t know, I’m not a scientist, but I do know that if it’s going to make my little one feel better and heal quicker…I’m all for kissing it and making it better.

To read the entire article from Dailymail.com, CLICK HERE! 

 

 

Mother punishes neighbor’s son by shaving his head, writing ‘pervert’ on his forehead

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In this day and age, looking at someone crossed eyed will get you in a lot of trouble. When I saw the title of this article I could not believe my eyes! Punishing your own child is hard enough these days. There is always someone looking or listening, just dying to get it on YouTube. What this mother did is unbelievable.

In Eureka MO, a mother punished her neighbor’s kid by shaving his head and writing pervert on his head with a felt tip pen. The police say they have never had a case like this before. According to police, the woman’s daughter was spending the night with the boy’s sister. Police say the boy went into the room where the girls were pulled the neighbor girl’s hair. When she sat up, the boy told police he accidentally hit her in the chest. The little girl, went home and told her mom she’d been touched inappropriately by the boy.

Lt. Dave Wilson of the Eureka Police Dept. stated – “The day the 9-year-old boy went to the neighbor’s house looking for his sister and the mother of the young girl who was upset with the young boy pulled him into the apartment, shaved his head,”

That’s not all. Police say the woman wrote the word ‘pervert’ with a felt tip pen on the boy’s forehead. Now that mother could face assault charges on a minor.

“She certainly admitted to the accusations and obviously regrets her decision,” says Wilson.

To read the entire article from ABC 10 News

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App Helps Parents ‘Spy’ on Their Kids

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As mothers and fathers, we all would like to think our teens are making the right decisions. However…raising a teen in this day and age of social media is definitely a challenge. There is always the real possibility that they are making horrible, embarrassing decisions on social media that could affect their lives. If there was only someway that we as parents could monitor them.

Oh wait…there is. Its called Gallery Guardian, and it was created to alert parents when kids take, receive, or save explicit images on their phones. It isn’t good news for everyone though, obviously not the teens, but some parents argue that it is a violation, like reading a teen’s diary, but the majority say that you’re only trying to protect kids.

In a BBC interview, Daniel Skowronksi — founder of Yipo Technologies, which made the app — explained how his app works: “Quite simply, first it will identify if there is a human in the picture,” Skowronksi said in the interview. “The more skin there is, the more the algorithm advances to the point where it will get to a ‘suspicious image detected.” It seems that the one area the app will not help is Snapchat. If a nude image appears and disappears just as fast, and your kid hasn’t screenshotted and saved it, this app won’t be able to help.

Although its still in the beginning “working out the bug” stages, it really does work. The question is, do you feel comfortable “spying” on your teen for his or her better?

Read the full article from Cafe Moms by Clicking HERE.

How Kids Are Affected By Life With A Single Mom

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Have you ever known a couple that you know is incredibly unhappy together, but stay together for the kids? I think most of us have and we all have our own personal beliefs as to whether that’s actually a very good idea or not. Does it create more stress for the child or children? Are you really fooling anyone… especially the kids?

Past studies have found that single-parent households run by only mothers can make life more stressful for kids. The good news is that research has shown the exact opposite. A new study compared how kids are affected by life with a single mom who chooses to be a single mom with children who are being raised in a traditional family, with two heterosexual parents. Researchers found no differences in the children’s well-being. This is great news for single moms who have been shamed by social media and traditional married couple families. The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology states children of single mothers are no more likely to suffer later in life than kids raised by a mother and a father, specifically “in terms of parent-child relationship or child development.”

Keep in mind these studies are coming from single moms who have consciously made the decision to be single moms for whatever reason. Maybe they were in dysfunctional relationships and knew this would be the best for their children. Or maybe they have made the decision to be artificially inseminated and plan on raising their child alone? Either way, these new studies are positive news to help any mom or mom to be make her decision.

To read the full article from Romper…CLICK HERE.

How to Raise Independent Daughters

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Men and feelings? Yea right – real men don’t show feelings and emotions. Suck it up dude…be the rock. If you show emotions your weak bro. Well at least that is what a lot of men think is the proper way to me a man. That may fly if you’re a 20 year old buck trying to impress the ladies, but if you have a daughter, you better start thinking differently and fast. We all have feelings guys and we all have emotions, not just women. By the way, feeling emotions and expressing them doesn’t make you a “woman” or a “homosexual” and people will not view you that way, due to most men’s popular belief. This is not the year 1956. A lot has changed since then – especially dad’s raising daughters.

One father talking about raising daughters says…”My reassessment came early, when my eldest daughter hit me with my first “daddy.” My entire identity was undone. Every one of my “hit like a girl” comments, came right back at me. It’s taken me a long time to shed some of that toxicity, and yes, I still struggle. So, after 21 years of parenting, 18 of which with daughters, these are just a few lessons they’ve taught me.”

  • Emotions are not the new Gluten

Guys, no matter what society tells us, we are able to feel emotions. You’re going to feel stuff and it’s not all going to be monster trucks and beer. Chances are, you’re not going to know what to do about these new feelings that you’re starting to let in. It’s even ok to cry, often, and for many reasons. Let your daughters see you cry. Your child is not your crutch, but they can be emotionally supportive.

  • Don’t be a Knight, but help her find her armor

Watching our children struggle is one of the hardest things we will ever have to do. When your raising a girl your will have that “man” instinct to rush in and save the day. Daddy to the rescue is commendable and our first reaction…”the old damsel in distress.” Although it is effective, it teaches our young girls to be rescued and unfortunately they will not always be rescued. You want to teach them independent problem solving, freethinking, empathetic skills that teach them to protect and save themselves.

  • Wash a dish and learn to cook

Many men grew up relating the word domestic with “women’s work.” Those days are gone guys. We don’t want our girls growing up thinking they are going to be someone’s maid and personal chef do we? I certainly don’t want my little girl taking dinner orders from some guy someday. Get in there and cook with your little girl. Show her men are born with a malfunction that doesn’t allow then to cook and clean. It is so good for them to see you jumping in there and being domestic as well. Also it’s fun to get in there and be goofy while you’re teaching.

Read these and so much more at Motto Words to Live By – CLICK HERE! 

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